Book Clubs Column by Julie Hale

WHAT IS THE WHATValentino Achak Deng, a native of Sudan, narrates this memoir-novel hybrid. During the 1980s and '90s, the civil war and related religious conflict in Valentino's home country displaced him and thousands of other young men, earning them the name the Lost Boys. In this straightforward and simply told narrative, Valentino recounts the destruction of his village, the...